ESPN: Hazard considering options

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Thorgan Hazard is assessing his options for next season amid claims Liverpool, Everton and Schalke are interested in the Chelsea youngster.

Hazard, the younger brother of Blues star Eden, has enjoyed an impressive campaign on loan at Zulte-Waregem and claimed the award for the best player in Belgium in January.

He said in March that he did not plan to return to his homeland next season and could seek to prove himself at Chelsea, whom he joined from Lens in 2012, and Jose Mourinho was present to check on the 21-year-old's progress in a 2-1 defeat to Anderlecht in the Pro League playoffs.

While there are suggestions he will join the Blues' preseason tour, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports that Mourinho plans to loan out or even sell the player and that there is interest from an array of clubs including Liverpool and Schalke.